Comments on: Politico: Gary Johnson ‘emerges as the next Ron Paul’ http://www.nmpolitics.net/index/2009/12/politico-gary-johnson-%e2%80%98emerges-as-the-next-ron-paul%e2%80%99/ Get the real story Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:44:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: valleydoc http://www.nmpolitics.net/index/2009/12/politico-gary-johnson-%e2%80%98emerges-as-the-next-ron-paul%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-9443 valleydoc Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:38:07 +0000 http://www.nmpolitics.net/index/?p=10422#comment-9443 Its hard to say what Mr. Johnson is going to do. I can't imagine him coming out into the public arena again unless he has some personal motivation for it. That being said, I hope he does run for president. Except for his position on drugs, which isn't necessarily a bad one - just an unpopular one, I think he would be a solid candidate for the GOP. Many of us have felt ostracized from the party since the right wing neocons took over in the late 90's, and I believe Mr. Johnson is just the right person to reunify the party; a pragmatic moderate with his head screwed on straight and his heart in the right place. His outspoken position on legalizing some drugs is definitely his achilles heel, and he'd be certain to be attacked on it everywhere he went. I would just hope people wouldn't base their vote solely on that one issue, and that he be given a chance to explain why partial legalization could actually be a good thing for everyone. If the drug lords are making billions on it, why shouldn't our government be instead?! Its hard to say what Mr. Johnson is going to do. I can’t imagine him coming out into the public arena again unless he has some personal motivation for it. That being said, I hope he does run for president. Except for his position on drugs, which isn’t necessarily a bad one – just an unpopular one, I think he would be a solid candidate for the GOP.

Many of us have felt ostracized from the party since the right wing neocons took over in the late 90′s, and I believe Mr. Johnson is just the right person to reunify the party; a pragmatic moderate with his head screwed on straight and his heart in the right place.

His outspoken position on legalizing some drugs is definitely his achilles heel, and he’d be certain to be attacked on it everywhere he went. I would just hope people wouldn’t base their vote solely on that one issue, and that he be given a chance to explain why partial legalization could actually be a good thing for everyone. If the drug lords are making billions on it, why shouldn’t our government be instead?!

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